WEATHER WATCHERS
If you want to know what the weather is going to be like, you should ask a plant. According to scientists, plants have the uncanny power to predict the weather.
Experiments at London’s Imperial College have shown that plant cells react to electric current.
Alerted by the charge in the atmosphere, they recognise that rain may soon be on the way and prepare their roots and leaves to take the maximum benefit.
These findings come six months after even more curious research which suggests that plants can talk – alerting each other to threats that are being posed by pests and viruses.
(Taken from Speak Up #131)
GLOSSARY:
uncanny = fantástico
charge = corrente elétrica
posed = apresentadas
According to the text, we conclude that
